Tree light wiring harness

• US 4,705,483 A
• Filed: 12/29/1986
• Issued: 11/10/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Davis, Lawrence E., Davis, William R.
• Original Assignee: Davis, Lawrence E., Davis, William R.
• Inventors: Davis, Lawrence E., Davis, William R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weidenfeld, Gil
• Assistant Examiner(s): BRADLEY, PAULA A
• Application Number:
  US06/946,765
• Time in Patent Office: 316 Days
• Field of Search: 339/28, 339/29, 339/119 R, 339/119 L, 339/121, 339/151 C, 439/502, 439/527, 439/541, 439/540, 439/626
• US Class Current: 439/502
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/003 the coupling part being secured only to wires or cables

Abstract

A wiring harness is provided which, among other uses, allows quick and convenient installation of lights on a Christmas tree. Preferably, the wiring harness includes a flexible, resilient, C-shaped ring body having a channel-shaped cross section with an interior surface; a plurality of electrical receptacles received within a corresponding plurality of cavities defined in the interior surface of the ring member; and a conductor pair electrically intercoupling the receptacles with an electrical plug. In advantageous use, the harness, with a plurality of strands of tree lights already plugged into the receptacles, is spread apart, placed about the upper boughs of the tree and released whereupon the essential labor is completed for placing the lights on the tree.

Claims

1. A wiring harness for providing electrical power from a source thereof to an electrical load, said wiring harness comprising:

a flexible, resilient, C-shaped ring body;

an electrical receptacle;

means for coupling said receptacle with said ring body; and

means for electrically coupling said receptacle with a source of electrical power;

wherein said receptacle coupling means includes a receptacle-receiving cavity defined in said ring body for receiving said receptacle therein;

said ring body presents a channel-shaped cross sectional configuration and includes a ring member, an inner wall depending therefrom, and a outer wall depending therefrom parallel to and spaced apart from said inner wall, said ring member includes an interior surface disposed between said inner wall and said outer wall, said interior surface includes said cavity;

said harness includes a plurality of said receptacles and a corresponding plurality of said cavities;

wherein said electrical coupling means includes an electrical plug adapted for electrically coupling with a source of electrical power and includes a pair of conductors electrically coupled with said plug and said receptacles.

2. The wiring harness as set forth in claim 1, further includes an auxiliary receptacle electrically coupled with said plug and disposed remote from said body.

3. The wiring harness as set forth in claim 1, wherein said receptacle presents a rectangular coupling surface and includes a pair of tubular, axially-parallel, electrically conducting, prong-receiving elements received therein normal to said surface, said elements being disposed adjacent opposed diagonal corners of said surface and adapted for receiving therein correspondingly configured cylindrical prongs of an electrical load plug.

4. A tree illumination system comprising:

a flexible, resilient, C-shaped cross sectional configuration including a ring member, an inner wall depending therefrom, and an outer wall depending therefrom parallel to and spaced apart from said inner wall, said ring member including an interior surface disposed between said inner wall and said outer wall;

a plurality of electrical receptacles;

means for coupling said receptacles with said ring body including a corresponding plurality of receptacle-receiving cavities defined in said interior surface for respectively receiving said receptacles therein;

means for electrically coupling said receptacles with a source of electrical power including

a plug adapted for electrically coupling with a source of electrical power, and

a pair of electrical conductors electrically intercoupling said receptacles with said plug; and

a corresponding plurality of light strands each including a plug adapted for electrically coupling with one of said receptacles.